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Street Harassment Stories:
Share your story! You can read street harassment stories on the Web at:
Collective Action for Safe Spaces
Ramallah Street Watch in Palestine
Street Harassment in South Africa
Many of the Hollaback sites
Street Harassment In the News, on the Blogs:
* FRA, “LGBT persons’ experiences of discrimination and hate crime in the EU and Croatia“
* Left Standing Up, “Harassed at the Corner Store: the Men and the Milk“
* HuffPost Live, “I was groped on the subway“
* Ms. Blog, “The Next Step In Fighting Street Harassment? A Comic Book.”
* Gender Focus, “New Apps Tackle Dating Violence, Street Harassment”
* Care2, “Nearly 100% of Women in Egypt Face Sexual Harassment“
* Slog, “It’s Spring! Who’s Ready for Street Harassment?“
* Blisstree.com, “Would You Like Some Perversion With That? My Worst Street Harassment Experience Yet“
* Ravere EduBlogs, “Street Harassment and Catcalling“
Announcements:
New:
* SSH is hiring our first summer intern! Info.
* Read the report about the activities that took place for International Anti-Street Harassment Week 2013!
* If you live/work/place in Washington, D.C., take this survey for Collective Action for Safe Spaces.
* A new study of 93,000 LGBQT individuals in the European Union countries reveals that street harassment is a pervasive problem for them.
Reminders:
* If you’re in the Washington, DC-area, come to the five-year anniversary Stop Street Harassment Happy Hour on June 5, 5-9 p.m. Info.
* “Cat calls” aren’t benign. Words can lead to violence. Support the documentary that tells that story: http://kck.st/XUZPmq
20 Tweets from the Week:
1. @Dara_212 “Sometimes I forget that, by virtue of being a woman, my body is constantly up for appraisal by strangers” time to end #streetharassment.
2. @charitydash Nothing makes me prouder to be a woman than enduring street harassment on my way to work!
3. @msjoyluckclub old man on the street just leeringly said “konichiwa” to me as i walked past him to catch my train // #gross #stopSH #streetharassment
4. @SaraLang Hard to listen to the two women on this train talking about street harassment they’ve experienced this week – it’s just so pervasive.
5. @thetrudz @one_wyz_womn No point. I deal with street harassment and racial microaggressions ALL DAY. Why go home to “comedy” that’s all insults?
6. @MissBethMyer The next guy to give me street harassment will take the fall for all the ones who came before him. Hope it’ll be worth it, buddy.
7. @MiaLWS @EverydaySexism Today, while walking home some dude honked, whistled, & shouted “Imma dick you down and wife you up!” #StreetHarassment
8. @DreuxD @WrittenbyBene Street harassment pisses me off to no end… Like I should be happy to be told go smile. Fuck off.
9. @WrittenbyBene I don’t have time to go on a #StreetHarassment rant, but it’s real. And guys need to cut it out. Seriously.
10. @AquafarE @and1grad @Aftashok We live in the same society where parents panic when daughters grow breasts because of street harassment.
11. @brittanclaire I just had a dream in which my response to street harassment was to push off the ground and fly, soaring over the trees/interstates/haters.
12. @juneylynne @BestPatricEgan Of course. I’m making a list this summer of each incident of street harassment I encounter. I anticipate it to be lengthy.
13. @iasshole “Hey despite 100s of people in this thread telling me street harassment is real and bad I still think you should be flattered.” #headdesk
14. @tessaquarium I miss my home in SF but I do not miss the crazy amount of street harassment i get.
15. @MarieSwartz My first experiences being ‘perceived’ as a woman were all street harassment in high school
16. @KaylinSnailin Socialization is fucked up. I experienced #streetharassment twice in 2 minutes and -I- feel guilty because I was riding my bike in a dress.
17. @stitchesofspace going outside means an 80% chance of being made uncomfortable. fuck street harassment.
18. @SuzanEraslan I am so fucking sick of street harassment I could tear someone’s eyes out.
19. @etoilee8 Nothing like a little bit of #streetharassment to make me want to punch a grown man. Lemme ask you something. Has it ever worked?
20. @SaraLang Yesterday while walking down U street, I averaged one incident of street harassment per block. #hollaback
